if we have no spending problem, why do we need to extended debt ceiling. why do we need more money? >> the president is running out of excuses. he can't blame the last administration because he is the last administration. president obama has spent more and created more debt than any president in history. yet we've got the slowest recovery of any recovery in history. i spent last summer going around my state talking to small businesses, dozens of them. it's very clear to me what is happening now. they were already beginning to pull back because of the expected costs of obamacare. the dodd-frank legislation that was federal takeover of financial system is making it harder for businesses to get loans. you look at the expected tax increases which businesses we're trying to plan for. uncertainty goes back to the president's policies. it's not obstruction, i wish we had more of it. policies in place are hurting our economy. even more than that, the uncertainty from the mounting debt on individual americans is putting us in a position where it's going to be harder to dig out of it. >> gret